i87i.] 'QUARTERLY REVIEW.' 327 



philosophy " (at any rate, in its Jesuitic garb), which Mr. 

 Mivart speaks of, and it was a want he at once set to work to 

 fill up. He was then staying at St. Andrews, whence he wrote 

 to my father : — 



" By great good luck there is an excellent library here, 

 with a good copy of Suarez,* in a dozen big folios. Among 

 these I dived, to the great astonishment of the librarian, and 

 looking into them ^ as the careful robin eyes the delver's toil ' 

 {vide ' Idylls '), 1 carried off the two venerable clasped vol- 

 umes which were most promising." Even those who know 

 Mr. Huxley's unrivalled power of tearing the heart out of a 

 book must marvel at the skill with which he has made Suarez 

 speak on his side. " So I have come out," he wrote, " in the 

 new character of a defender of Catholic orthodoxy, and up- 

 set Mivart out of the mouth of his own prophet." 



The remainder of Mr. Huxley's critique is largely occu- 

 pied with a dissection of the ^ Quarterly ' reviewer's psychol- 

 ogy, and his ethical views. He deals, too, with Mr. Wal- 

 lace's objections to the doctrine of Evolution by natural 

 causes when applied to the mental faculties of Man. Finally, 

 he devotes a couples of pages to justifying his description of 

 the * Quarterly ' reviewer's " treatment of Mr. Darwin as alike 

 unjust and unbecoming." 



It will be seen that the two following letters were written 

 before the publication of Mr. Huxley's article.] 



C. Darwin to T. H. Huxley. 



Down, September 21 [1871]. 



My dear Huxley, — Your letter has pleased me in many 

 ways, to a wonderful degree. . . . What a wonderful man you 

 are to grapple with those old metaphisico-divinity books. It 

 quite delights me that you are going to some extent to answer 

 and attack Mivart. His book, as you say, has produced a 

 great effect ; yesterday I perceived the reverberations from it, 

 even from Italy. It was this that made me ask Chauncey 



* The learned Jesuit on whom Mr. Mivart mainly relies. 



